Tag: tourism

Nobody does a state fair like Minnesota. And nobody does The State Fair like Minnesotans. Everyone’s got a fair hack — that little trick that makes you an insider, the one you swear by, the one that makes your trip (or trips!) to the fair the best possible time — till next year. Clark Gregor Read more →

The Arrowhead town of Grand Marais, Minn., population 1,300, has had more personas than Madonna. Originally a Native American settlement, it has been a European immigrants’ fishing camp, a fur trading post and a shipping hub before its current iteration as a tourist destination and the seat of Cook County. Nestled amid a snaggletooth mountain Read more →

Charlie Braunreiter greeted the first visitors to the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame in New Ulm on a recent Saturday morning, and offered up tales about the old days and old-timey music in this southern Minnesota city, where the first wave of musically inclined German immigrants set the stage for a rich tradition of polkas Read more →

In aisles of glass cases, shrine-like arrangements of feathery lures and shiny hooks surround photos of their former owners. These donated collections sit alongside hand-carved lures, wooden canoes and replicas of the largest fish caught in the state, making the Minnesota Fishing Museum a display of earnest nostalgia. 89 year-old owner Al Baert walks over Read more →

WINONA, Minn. — The streets of downtown Winona felt a little sleepy on a recent Wednesday morning, but Adventure Cycle and Ski was hopping with both local gearheads and casual bike riders. “The bluffs up there? Some of the best mountain biking in the state,” says Jim Trouten, an employee at the shop who knows Winona’s Read more →